Disputing Negative Information Found On Your Credit Report

Your credit report is constantly changing depending on your spending habits or especially in the event that you have become a victim of fraud ... do it yourself or hire a professional credit repair. If you choose to handle re-establishing your credit ... bureaus and the collection agency. First thing you will need to do is write a letter to the credit [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 20:01:24

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How to avoid credit card fraud!

Credit card fraud is increasing in the age of rampant identity theft ... company with specific details. Always check your credit card statements thoroughly. Report any ... purposes. Do not use multiple credit cards for making online purchases. It is better to have one credit [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 14:23:10

If Your Kid Loses His Wallet...

A picture of a wallet. In addition to a driver's license, teens today carry many of the same things adults carry in their wallets: credit cards, ... Commission: Cancel your credit, debit and ATM cards immediately. Get new cards with new account numbers. Call the fraud departments of the major credit reporting agencies. Ask each agency to put out [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 05:45:56

What Happens AFTER You Get Your Identity Stolen

Having your identity stolen is far more damaging than just losing money ... . Get a new license.  Close bank accounts.  Open bank accounts.  Contact all credit bureaus to freeze your credit and activate fraud alerts.  Contact the FTC and report ID theft.  Call here, email here, drive [more...]

Date: 2008-07-29 19:02:03

ONE Tip for 2009 - Identity Theft Still Rampant so Sign up for Lifelock.com

I got this email from some very close friends yesterday who were asking to spread the word about their identity thefts: ... more issues on my credit report before it is over. I am going to have to testify against the woman ... in custody. We have had credit card fraud, checks cashed, new accounts opened on line and in stores [more...]

Date: 2009-01-01 19:51:24

Identity Theft 911

By Joe Farinaccio How to handle an identity theft 911 emergency Discovering you’re the victim of ID Theft is what we call an identity theft 911 ... it will take at least 200 hours to fix or repair your records (And this is IF you uncover ID fraud as soon as it happens AND begin contacting credit reporting agencies, creditors and agencies quickly [more...]

Date: 2008-08-13 11:41:28

Wanna Get Away? Get Banks OK in UK

If you "wanna get away" and you live in the UK, make sure your bank nose..otherwise you'll have "slim pickin's" when it comes to payment options.. ... , when they go away, according to a recent report in the newspaper The Times.This is in the aim of combating credit card fraud, where several holiday goers found their debit or credit cards frozen [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 17:36:00

Bank Fraud: What If You Find Fraud in Your Checking Account?

You opened up your checking account statement for this month, and tons of weird charges are looking back at you ... .  Report the fraud to the FTC at 1-877-ID-THEFT or on their website http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/edu ... they will probably not do much, but they should file a police report.   Call your bank or credit card [more...]

Date: 2008-09-07 13:41:08

More miscellanous roundup--Internet spying, car fraud and more

Over at Slashdot, an item reports that Wikileaks has posted an internal British Telecom report on the secret trials of the extremely controversial ... advertising based on a user's browsing habits."FTC has a new website on telephone fraud ... the credit bureau Trans Union's (TU release) long-running and insolent violation of the Fair Credit [more...]

Date: 2008-06-05 22:00:33

Always Look A Gift Check In The Mouth [Check Fraud]

Fred writes: My brother who is a junior at college sent out a bunch of applications for college grants and other sources of funding to pay for his ... him that he has been reported to the FBI, and that the information would be noted on his credit report. He wasn't really able ... by not answering anything. I was wondering if it would be a negative [more...]

Date: 2008-09-19 16:14:23

Criminal Charges: Volume XV -- Recession-proof crimes

Some items are purchased regardless of the state of the economy ... assortment of credit card crime and fraud items shows that thieves may also focus on staple items in hard ... ) reports that on Oct. 28, the Tops shopper had her purse, containing a checkbook and credit card [more...]

Date: 2008-11-10 20:07:14

eCommnerce Chargebacks and Remedies

According to a recent report (Oct, 2008) by CyberSource (a leading payment & risk management services company) ... with their bank or credit/debit card provider. Sometimes the consumer dispute is untrue, and their refund claim ... . In cases of credit card fraud, the merchant loses the goods or services sold, the payment, the fees [more...]

Date: 2009-01-06 07:09:50

Countrywide Sends Fraud Alert Letters: 'Your Info May Have Been Sold' [Countrywide]

A Countrywide customer emailed to tell us he received a unpleasant surprise in the mail today: ... on to say they will give you 2 years of Triple Advantage credit report monitoring for free ... a former Countrwide employee may have sold his loan info. I received a letter from Countrywide [more...]

Date: 2008-09-09 22:57:49

Five Ways to Detect Fraud Using Geolocation

This post was written by Quova, they sent it as a press release but I thought it was interesting enough to publish on the blog ... who used credit card numbers later identified as stolen. The report estimates that in 2007 $3.6 ... are bad, the use of an anonymous proxy that hides or masks a unique IP address can be a fraud indicator [more...]

Date: 2008-12-15 13:04:02

Why no decisions by Police on electoral breaches?

The Herald reports today that the Police have rejected the NZ First complaint against the Director of the Serious Fraud Office ... on 26 August, the late Social Credit donations return on 4 Sep 2008, and a further Progressive ad [more...]

Date: 2008-12-23 20:25:50

10 Tips to Keep Identity Theft from Ruining Holiday Travel Plans

From Brian Lapidus, Chief Operating Officer for Kroll Fraud Solutions Attention Holiday Travelers: There’s good news and bad news to report about the 2008 holiday travel season. The good news ... the house key. Don’t leave out tax returns, credit card statements, utility bills and the like. It’ [more...]

Date: 2008-12-16 06:24:11

MVP- PAUL PIERCE a FRAUD?

EMAIL: Nik I used to own a ticket Agency in Gardena, California called Caffey Entertainment ... with the credit card when the bill arrived). When I got the charge back letter, it said the card belonged ... .  So in March, I filed a police report with the Gardena Police Department.  Please note: Paul Pierce [more...]

Date: 2008-06-19 16:20:40

I think I have been the victim of identity theft. What can I do?

The following post in our Reader Question series is an actual user submitted question ... of the three credit bureaus and ask them to place a credit freeze on your credit report ... of a credit freeze. A fraud alert is an annotation on your credit report that lets potential lenders [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 00:33:48

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